The book had long lingered there. Known, but not acknowledged. Sitting on her father’s bookshelf for decades after the war in Western Europe had culminated in an Allied victory on May 8, 1945. Except ...

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Heinrich Himmler was a Nazi leader in Germany. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, appointed Commander of the Home Army by Adolf Hitler. Himmler is held highly responsible for the ...

No matter how much is written about Nazi Germany, there is always some new horror to behold and some new paradox to ponder. That’s how I felt when I opened a remarkable and wholly fascinating new book ...

Nearly 700 of the former Nazi SS chief's private letters and photos have surfaced. The documents are deemed authentic, though experts debate their actual historical value. Hundreds of private letters ...

Kersten’s Lists: A Saviour In The Depths of Hell, by Francois Kersaudy (Headline £25, 416pp) On February 3, 1945, Heinrich Himmler’s enormous, bear-like masseur, Felix Kersten, sent his secretary Frau ...

The daughter of Heinrich Himmler, who led Adolf Hitler’s ruthless SS, worked as a secretary for West Germany’s spy agency in the 1960s despite never renouncing Nazism and remaining active in far-right ...

He was the evil architect of the ­Holocaust. The Jew-hating bespectacled former chicken farmer who rose from obscurity to become Adolf Hitler’s trusted henchman. But the personal life of Heinrich ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Heinrich Himmler ...

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister ...